deacvision7
Mod Emeritus
They are such anal retentive twats over there. Almost got banned for showing them how their product could be improved? Absolutely absurd.
What do you mean by front page? I don't know of many message boards that have a successful front page outside of the base forum links, unless that's the page you're talking about. But by status line I mean something on every page, added to the top nav. Basically a ticker for news like a player signing, game links, etc. A lot of the vBulletin boards that are popular have one - makes the forums seem very active and also denotes the mods are active. Even better if it was the ogboards twitter feed and you could follow it.
I doubt anyone will every really use the calendar much, but who knows.
And I do think the site looks clean - good job on the look and feel. You're definitely right to be careful about it.
Anyway congrats on the site and good work. When they switched to the garbage Scout board back in the day I actually built a site like this one just to show off how pathetic their board was. Almost got banned... Assholes...
What do you mean by front page? I don't know of many message boards that have a successful front page outside of the base forum links, unless that's the page you're talking about. But by status line I mean something on every page, added to the top nav. Basically a ticker for news like a player signing, game links, etc. A lot of the vBulletin boards that are popular have one - makes the forums seem very active and also denotes the mods are active. Even better if it was the ogboards twitter feed and you could follow it.
I doubt anyone will every really use the calendar much, but who knows.
And I do think the site looks clean - good job on the look and feel. You're definitely right to be careful about it.
Anyway congrats on the site and good work. When they switched to the garbage Scout board back in the day I actually built a site like this one just to show off how pathetic their board was. Almost got banned... Assholes...
lower navigation is silly, thats what the forum jump box is for. less clicking!
Successful as in cool or successful as in click-through rates?
Regardless, no big deal - if you can pull it off I'm sure it'd be cool. From experience I'd just recommend an inside-out approach - add the initial high value stuff to the popular pages (forum list home, front page for each forum). For instance Drew's sticky on game DVD's... Driving users to the site for everyday stuff is key - especially for stuff the other site sucks at like updating game links, providing timely news/updates, etc - or anything web2.0 like an iPhone/Droid App, twitter integration, etc. I mean, you could feed the player tweets here for example in a twitter box. That'd be cool.
Anyway, good luck - you're off to a great start.
Can you give me an example of a forum with a ticker bar like the one you're talking about? My mental image of this is probably not even close to what you're describing. :tard:
I don't expect the calendar to be used much unless we actually can integrate it with a ticker somehow.
By front page, we are discussing having something similar to what the Scout boards has, with blog postings/important updates/etc... this is a really really long way off though.
Wow, a twitter box is a really great idea.
Why are some of my envelopes black now, and others yellow?
They were changed last night, you are just now getting the updates through your browser.
I just downloaded FF4. Are they all going to one color?
Not sure if the problem is on my end, but i can't get the (formerly) blue arrows to take me to my last-read post on the thread anymore. It always takes me somewhere in the middle. It also always shows threads as unread even though I have read every single post. Ideas?
it's weird, though, because I post on another VBulletin forum and don't have that problem.